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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

וּבַשָּׁנָה֩ (בַ) va. “in the”בְּיֶ֣רַח (בְּ) be. “in”

And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

בָּאֶ֗רֶז (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

בָּאֶ֔רֶז (בָּ) ba. “with <the>”

All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

בַּמְּגֵרָ֖ה (בַּ) ba. “with <the>”

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

בַּנְּחֹ֑שֶׁת (בַּ) ba. “with <the>”

The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.

בָּֽאוּלָ֑ם (בָּֽ) ba. “in the”

And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

בָּ֠אַמָּה (בָּ֠) Ba. “by the”בָּֽאַמָּה֙ (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”

And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.

בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”בִּיצֻקָתֽוֹ׃ (בִּ) bi. “in”

And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

בָּאַמָּ֗ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”בָּֽאַמָּה֙ (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”בָּאַמָּ֖ה (בָּ) ba. “by the”

The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round.

בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”

The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.

בַּמְּכוֹנָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “[were] on the”

And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;

וּבְרֹ֣אשׁ (בְ) ve. “at”

And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases.

בָּֽאַמָּה֙ (בָּֽ) ba. “by the”

He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.

בְּכִכַּ֤ר (בְּ) be. “in”בְּמַעֲבֵ֖ה (בְּ) be. “in”

So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.

בְּאֹצְר֖וֹת (בְּ) be. “in”

And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.

בְּיֶ֥רַח (בְּ) be. “in”בֶּחָ֑ג (בֶּ) be. “at the”

They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.

בָּאֹ֑הֶל (בָּ) ba. “[were] in the”

There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

בָּֽאָר֔וֹן (בָּֽ) ba. “[was] in the”בְּחֹרֵ֑ב (בְּ) be. “at”בְּצֵאתָ֖ם (בְּ) be. “when”

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,

בְּצֵ֥את (בְּ) be. “when”

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

בָּעֲרָפֶֽל׃ (בָּ) ba. “in <the>”

And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to David my father, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,

בְּפִ֔יו (בְּ) be. “with”וּבְיָד֥וֹ (בְ) ve. “with”

From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

בְעִ֗יר (בְ) ve. “<in>”בְּדָוִ֔ד (בְּ) be. “<in>”

In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.

בְּהוֹצִיא֥וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”

Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.

בַּשָּׁמַ֣יִם (בַּ) ba. “in the”בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “with”

And you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.

בְּפִ֛יךָ (בְּ) be. “with”וּבְיָדְךָ֥ (בְ) ve. “with”